What's New

Why is it that it takes the holidays forever to get here and then when they're over, times goes by so fast? It seems like the last two weeks have been a blur! Lucy started out with a cold last week and she passed it to Courtney and I and now Londyn has missed some school due to the same bug. Adam has escaped it for now.
On Saturday Londyn had her first basketball game and she did great! This little girl has got some potential and she didn't get it from her Dad and you would know that's true if you've ever had the misfortune of seeing me play basketball. She made 7 or 8 baskets and is one of the better players on her team.
The kids are always asking me when we're going on our next Daddy/Daughter date or Father/Son outting. They must have fun because they're always asking when we're going again. I took Adam to see the new D-League basketball team about a week ago and so on Saturday after her game, I took Londyn to the horse auction. Sounds redneck right? Well it is and they have one here every Saturday and from now on we're just going to stay away because we came home with another horse!! What were we thinking? Driving home I kept saying..."We are crazy" and Londyn said, "Dad, you've said that a hundred times!" I couldn't believe we had just bought another horse. Long story short, she was such a steal that I couldn't help but bid on her. Final price...$175.00. People have too many horses and don't want to feed them through the winter or don't have the time to spend with them so this year and probably this year only the prices are unbelievable.
You wouldn't believe this horse, she's a beautiful Paint with very nice markings, sorrel and white with a white mane and she is just friendly as can be. I'll post some pictures of her another day. We named her Auburn Sky and we'll call her Sky for short. We had a professional rider come over and run her through various exercises to see to what extent she's been trained and he just couldn't believe what a great horse we got. It was with his help that we bought her on Saturday otherwise there was no way we would have bid on a random horse. These two horses take up a lot of our time, but we just love it and the kids are fantastic about their chores and taking care of the animals. At the same time we've been very busy re-modeling our basement and you should see Adam go to town on that. I've never seen him so excited to swing to hammer and he's been a very hard worker. He wants to work on the basement every night and we do, but not every night.
So that's what we've been up to. We hope you are all doing well and enjoying the new year!